Los Angeles Herald, Number 169, 17 May 1920 — Seized Confederate MONEY IS destroyed [ARTICLE

Seized confederate MONEY IS destroyed

WASHINOTONT, May 17.—The final chapter in the financial history of the Confederate States of America was written In the treasury department recently when $60,000,000 In Confederate money was destroyed to relieve the congested condition of the treasury vaults. The currency comprised the "sinews of war" In the Confederate treasury at- Richmond, and was .seized by the Federal troops when the southern capital was captured